💻 Senior Network Administrator | Cloud, Security & Automation
🌐 Merrimack Valley, MA • 20+ years in IT • Homelab + Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer
- 20+ years managing and securing hybrid infrastructure (on-prem AD + Entra ID + Intune)
- Deep experience in network engineering, virtualization, and endpoint management
- Building scalable, secure, repeatable solutions across enterprise + homelab
- Automating everything with PowerShell, Graph API, GitHub Actions
- Always experimenting with Zero Trust, monitoring, and self-hosted platforms
- Running a fully self-hosted personal infrastructure stack on my own hardware
- Available for consulting, freelance, and contract IT work across northern MA & southern NH
Infrastructure: Proxmox · QNAP · Hyper-V · UniFi · pfSense · OPNsense · Proxmox Backup Server · Veeam · Backblaze B2
OS: Windows Server · Ubuntu Server · Debian · Linux
Containers: Docker · Compose · Portainer
Cloud: Azure · Microsoft 365 · Intune · Autopilot · Entra ID
Automation: PowerShell · Graph API · GitHub/GitLab CI · Power Automate
Networking: VLAN Design · WireGuard/Tailscale · Nginx Reverse Proxy/WAF · Cloudflare Tunnels · Fing
Self-Hosted: AdGuard · Home Assistant · RustDesk · Uptime Kuma · Pi.Alert · LinkStack · Seafile · UrBackup · Seerr · Bitwarden
Security: Wazuh · Cloudflare Zero Trust · UniFi IDS/IPS · pfSense Firewall · T-Pot
Enterprise: ConnectWise · ScreenConnect · Auvik · Sophos · Proofpoint · Microsoft Defender · Cisco Umbrella · KnowBe4 · Meraki
🔹 NOC Dashboard Open-source NOC dashboard for homelabs, prosumers, and small businesses — 130+ integrations, drag-and-drop cards, custom card builder, reporting, multi-user auth with 2FA, dark terminal aesthetic. Docker-ready.
🔹 Cloudflare Zero Trust for Homelab
Securing self-hosted services without open ports using Cloudflare Tunnels and Access policies
🔹 RustDesk Remote Access (Self-Hosted)
Replaced TeamViewer/AnyDesk with a fully self-hosted remote desktop server on Docker
🔹 AdGuard Home + Unbound Architecture
Network-wide DNS filtering and recursive resolver stack with VLAN-aware configuration
🔹 UniFi VLAN Segmentation & Firewalls
Full network segmentation across IoT, trusted, guest, and management VLANs
🔹 Proxmox NFS Storage & PBS Backups
Multi-layer backup architecture using PBS, QNAP NFS, HBS3 replication, and Backblaze B2
🔹 Uptime Kuma Monitoring Stack
Self-hosted monitoring and alerting for all homelab services and endpoints
- 🌐 Portfolio: https://portfolio.mrdtech.me
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldziegiel
- 🖥️ Website: https://mrdtech.me
- 📧 Email: techgeek@mrdtech.me
⭐ Always building, improving, and securing IT environments — one project at a time.